The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-20
THE STATE PRESS.
Its Editors Continue to Discuss Current Top
les in Plain and Vigorous Style.
THE ATTACK ON JUDGE WOODS.

THE ATTACK ON JUDGE WOODS.
Rochester Tribune.
The plain duty of all newspapers without re-
spect to party should be to advocate punishment
for the violation of law and yet we have failed
to find single Democratic newspaper in the
State demanding the punishment of the Indian
apolis tally sheet forgers on the contrary calling
the attention of the reader from the crime to
the charge of Judge Woods. and depouncng him
with all the capability for SANDER they possess,
ana yet they cannot cite single expression In
the charge that is not warranted by the law and
the facts in the case. AS political move the
policy adopted by these papers is not shrewi
one. Judge Woods has been a resi- dent OF Goshen,
Ind. for many years. While very young in the
practice of the law. he gained an enviable repu-
tatlon as lawyer, which time only has tended
to confirm in the minds of the people in the
northern part of the State. The writer knows
that had he chosen the field of politics rather
than that of the legal profession he could have
been the candidate of his party for Congress in
his district whenever he would give his consent
But he chose elevation in the profession he
loved, and when comparatively young was
elected circuit Judge of his district, and gained
the confidence of the bar and the people for his
impartial decisions. subsequently he was cleo led
judge of the Supreme Court of the State and for
the qualities he displayed as judge in that posi-
ton he was appointed to his present position.
No man in northern Indiana is held in higher
estimation. and all bowling these slanderers may
do will but increase the majority it is intended
TO defeat. OF all the political moves made by
any party this is by far the most infamous, if
possible exceeding that of the Mercy letter.
GETTING DISCOURAGED.
Evansville Journal
The Coy gang of tallv-sheet forgers at Indian
apolis getting very down hearted over the
fact that the government has new and strong
idence against some of them and will it in
the new trial which is to be held shortly. The
disagreement of the jury at the recent trial was
all that saved several of them from the peni-
Tertiary, where they deserve to be. The efforts
OF the Democratic press to condone the crime of
the Coy gang will have a very damaging reflex
action on the party.
BORN OF HATE.
Michigan City News.
jeff Davis's silly story that the government
tried to procure his assassination during the
war is supplemented by the Indianapolis Senti-
nel's story that plan was concocted to murder
Cleveland at the @. A. r. encampment at ST.
Louis In Davis's case the government would
have been the loser by his death, better
man would have taken his place, and in Cleve-
lands case no one could have been benefited.
Both stories are imaginations of diseased minds,
and born of hate against the government and its
defenders
AN OLD LIE IN NEW GARB.
Warren Republican.
The Islander published by the Indianapolis
Sentinel that there a concocted plot against
the life of President Cleveland and that no
would be murdered at st. Louis when he visited
that city, is the same old lie that Guiteau was
hired by the Republicans to kill Garfield,
dressed in another garb. The reflection in the
of Cleveland Is against the Grand Army of
the Republic and is too contemptible for de-
PUNCHES THEM ALL TOGETHER.
MartinsvilIe Republican.
The for the rebellion made Republicans
and unmade Democrats, in the North. Out of
the same war grew the q. A. R., which organ
ization includes both classes of citizens. the
made Republicans and the unmade Democrats.
together with number OF men whose political
views were unchanged by the But the In
dianapolis Sentinel punches them all together
and calls them would be assassins.
NO NEW DEPARTURE
NobIesville Republican Ledger.
The Indianapolis Sentinel has started and is
circulating malicious lie concerning a plot to
assassinate the President at St. Louis. and by
its insinuations attemps to lay this infamy the
doors of the G. A. r. This is no new departure
for the Sentinel; it has been, especially
since 1861. arraJed in opposition to those who
wore the blue.
ONE OF CoY'S PRODUCTIONS.
Franklin Republican.
The honest Democrats of Indianapolis will
have an opportunity at the coming city election
to show their disapproval of the Coy gangs
methods of carrying elections. Edenharter, the
Democratic candidate for Mayor, is one of Coys
productions.